Disease-Specific Patterns of Hospice and Related Healthcare Use in an Incidence Cohort of Seriously Ill Elderly Patients

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 531-538

  Iwashyna, Theodore J ^a   Zhang, James X ^b   Christakis, Nicholas A ^c  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT CARE; STROKE; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINAL DISEASE; AMBULATORY CARE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPICE CARE; HOSPITAL; PATIENT TRANSPORT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOSPICE CARE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PATIENT TRANSFER; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036674670     PISSN: 10966218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/109662102760269760     Document Type: Article

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